Frank Oz

I make a deal with the audience every time I direct a movie. The deal always is this: I'm showing you this…

— Frank Oz

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

— Frank Oz

When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was…

— Frank Oz

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a…

— Frank Oz

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be…

— Frank Oz

I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My…

— Frank Oz

I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I was eleven years…

— Frank Oz

I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why…

— Frank Oz

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that…

— Frank Oz

I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why…

— Frank Oz

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it…

— Frank Oz

I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned…

— Frank Oz

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

— Frank Oz

I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had…

— Frank Oz

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

— Frank Oz

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line.…

— Frank Oz

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

— Frank Oz

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well…

— Frank Oz

I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud…

— Frank Oz

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy…

— Frank Oz

'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was…

— Frank Oz

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

— Frank Oz

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different…

— Frank Oz

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come…

— Frank Oz

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was…

— Frank Oz